Welcome to the Department of Public Health Sciences. Our mission is to prepare public health practitioners for the State of New Mexico, the region, and the country.

We have outstanding faculty, excellent facilities, and a tremendous legacy in preparing public health educators. For the longest of time we were the ONLY institution in the country that had an undergraduate community/public health education program approved as well as an MPH accredited by the Council for Education in Public Health (CEPH). Baylor University recently joined us as having this distinction.

This website is used for a variety of reasons– one, to recruit potential students; two, to provide a resource for our current students.

We also invite current and past students to Follow @NMSUMPH on Twitter or visit us on Facebook. It’s a great way to keep up to date with what’s happening with the program.

If you should ever have a question, please feel free to stop by. I have an open door policy. I’m in CHSS 102 (that’s the Memorial Tower building).

Some recent news:

Dr. Satya Rao received state award for her work in New Mexico Public Health Association

Three students receive special recognition at NMPHA’s Conference for their Presentation

Dr. Sue Forster-Cox has been selected by President Obama to serve on the prestigious US/Mexico Border Health Commission

Drs. Rao and Palacios recently received promotions to Full Professor and Associate Professor respectively

Perfect examples in that we don’t talk public health, we ARE public health!